Hellbound: Hellraiser II Page #12

While this process has been going on, KYLE has been dying slowly

and horribly in her arms, his lifeforce being sucked into her

through their open mouths. His body, by the time her back is

completely formed, is shrunken, hollow, and dried up.

JULIA takes her arms from around the corpse of KYLE and steps

back, allowing the husk to fall to the floor.

JULIA licks her lips and looks down, not without affection, at

the dead KYLE. She smiles.

JULIA:

Thank you, Kyle.

67 INT. OBSESSION ROOM DAY

KIRSTY has found the black ring-binder and laid it on the

writing table.

She has separated one of the photographs from the others and laid

it out on the table beside the binder. It is the ENGLISH OFFICER

from the opening sequence. KIRSTY has obviously recognized something

familiar in it but she can't quite grasp it completely.

She is still puzzling over it when she suddenly realises that

several minutes have elapsed since KYLE left her there. Her

head straightens up and her puzzled look is replaced by a

slightly worried one.

KIRSTY:

(to herself)

Kyle...?

She folds up the photograph and puts it in her pocket.

She crosses to the door and opens it. She does not go through it

immediately but stands in the doorway for a moment, her hand

still on the door, cocking her head slightly as if listening.

KIRSTY:

(slightly louder)

Kyle?

She can't hear anything, but she regards that as a bad sign, not

a good one. She leaves the room.

68 INT. STAIRS/LANDING DAY

KIRSTY makes her way up the stairs. Unlike KYLE a little earlier

she moves up them quite quickly and advances onto the landing.

When she is on the landing and looking at the closed door to

JULIA's Boudoir she stops, standing still and staring at the

door.

KIRSTY suppresses a shudder. She bites her lip, takes two or

three deep breaths, crosses to the door firmly, and flings it

open, moving into the room even as she does so.

69 INT. THE BLOOD-BOUDOIR DAY

KIRSTY moves three or four steps into the room and then stops

dead. The door swings shut behind her.

KIRSTY's eyes flick left and right, taking in the sickening

details of the room's contents, and then stare straight ahead,

focusing on the figure in white which is turning around to face

her.

JULIA completes her turn and looks at KIRSTY completely

impassively for a moment. Then her mouth opens up into a smile of

welcome - but there is nothing but hate in her eyes.

JULIA:

Kirsty! How nice of

you to drop in.

JULIA glances meaningfully at the dead thing that lies beside her

feet and then back at KIRSTY.

JULIA:

You have surprisingly good taste in men.

KIRSTY's fear and disgust are momentarily displaced by a furious

rage as she realises what JULIA has done. Her face erupts into

anger and she screams out.

KIRSTY:

Kyle! No! I'll kill you,

you...

She flings herself across the room at JULIA even as she speaks.

JULIA is completely unphased by this attack and simply raises one

arm. She siezes the wrist of the arm that KIRSTY has raised into

a clenched fist and effortlessly throws KIRSTY bodily back across

the room. We realise for the first time the immense physical

strength that JULIA now possesses.

KIRSTY smashes into the door and falls to a sitting position

against it. She is shaken and slightly hurt enough not to get to

her feet immediately but she stares at JULIA with undimmed

hatred.

JULIA throws a look halfway between a smile and a sneer.

JULIA:

Oh, you can try it, you

little b*tch. I'd love you

to try it. But I'm not just

the woman I was.

KIRSTY:

What, you mean you're something

more than a whore with a vicious

streak?

JULIA:

I mean I'm something more than

human, you little sh*t!

JULIA snaps this first line but then holds her anger in check.

She shakes her head and an amused smile plays across her lips.

JULIA:

Oh, Kirsty. They didn't tell

you, did they? I'm afraid

they've changed the rules of

the fairy tale; I'm no longer

just the wicked step-mother.

The smile disappears and she delivers the next line with an

utterly straight face. It is, after all, the truth.

JULIA:

Now I'm the Evil Queen.

The hatred and the heat returns to her voice.

JULIA:

So come on; Take your best

shot, Snow White.

KIRSTY scrambles to her feet and again charges at JULIA.

JULIA steps forward to meet her advance and delivers a single

back-handed swipe across KIRSTY's face with such force that not

only is the girl knocked off her feet but is actually knocked

unconscious.

KIRSTY rolls onto her back and lies at JULIA's feet.

JULIA stares down at the unconscious body. When it was awake, it

was KIRSTY and her attitude to it was based on personal enmity.

Now, it is simply another body and she judges it differently; it

is firm, full, healthy, and young. We see the expression on her

face change from hatred and triumph to pure appetite. She licks

her lips and her eyes glisten. She begins to bend slightly

towards it.

MALAHIDE:

(off-camera)

Julia!

The door to the room opens. JULIA straightens up and looks as

MALAHIDE stands in the doorway. Her eyebrows question this

interruption.

A second later, and it is explained. He leads TIFFANY into the

room.

TIME CUT:

70 INT. OBSESSION ROOM DAY

TIFFANY sits cross-legged in the middle of the floor. She appears

to be alone in the room. Cradled in her lap is a Lament

Configuration, taken from one of the glass cases on the low

table.

On a wall behind TIFFANY, one of the large prints that previously

hung there has been taken down.

Revealed in the space behind it is a large mirror. The camera

moves in towards this mirror.

71 INT. OBSESSION ROOM ALCOVE DAY

MALAHIDE and JULIA stand in a tiny and completely bare room. On the

wall in front of them is a large window through which we see a

back-view of TIFFANY in the obsession room.

72 INT. OBSESSION ROOM DAY

TIFFANY looks around the room generally and then turns her

attention completely to the LAMENT CONFIGURATION.

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